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Consider composite nonconvex optimization problems where the objective function consists of a smooth nonconvex term (with Lipschitz-continuous gradient) and a convex (possibly nonsmooth) term. Existing parameter-free methods for such…

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Augmenting algorithms with learned predictions is a promising approach for going beyond worst-case bounds. Dinitz, Im, Lavastida, Moseley, and Vassilvitskii~(2021) have demonstrated that a warm start with learned dual solutions can improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Shinsaku Sakaue , Taihei Oki

We propose a variable metric framework for minimizing the sum of a self-concordant function and a possibly non-smooth convex function, endowed with an easily computable proximal operator. We theoretically establish the convergence of our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-15 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Volkan Cevher

In this paper, we consider a broad class of nonsmooth and nonconvex fractional programs, where the numerator can be written as the sum of a continuously differentiable convex function whose gradient is Lipschitz continuous and a proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Radu Ioan Boţ , Minh N. Dao , Guoyin Li

In this paper we consider the problem of finding the minimizations of the sum of two convex functions and the composition of another convex function with a continuous linear operator. With the idea of coordinate descent, we design a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Meng Wen , Shigang Yue , Yuchao Tang , Jigen Peng

Model reduction is essential for real-time simulation of deformable objects. Linear techniques such as PCA provide structured and predictable behavior, but their limited expressiveness restricts accuracy under large or nonlinear…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Shixun Huang , Eitan Grinspun , Yue Chang

In this short note, we provide a simple version of an accelerated forward-backward method (a.k.a. Nesterov's accelerated proximal gradient method) possibly relying on approximate proximal operators and allowing to exploit strong convexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Mathieu Barré , Adrien Taylor , Francis Bach

Backtracking line-search is an old yet powerful strategy for finding a better step sizes to be used in proximal gradient algorithms. The main principle is to locally find a simple convex upper bound of the objective function, which in turn…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Mahesh Chandra Mukkamala , Peter Ochs , Thomas Pock , Shoham Sabach

This paper considers the decentralized convex optimization problem, which has a wide range of applications in large-scale machine learning, sensor networks, and control theory. We propose novel algorithms that achieve optimal computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Ziang Zhou , Tong Zhang

Sparse optimization refers to an optimization problem involving the zero-norm in objective or constraints. In this paper, nonconvex approximation approaches for sparse optimization have been studied with a unifying point of view in DC…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Hoai An Le Thi , Tao Pham Dinh , Hoai Minh Le , Xuan Thanh Vo

In this work, we propose and analyze DCA-PAGE, a novel algorithm that integrates the difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) with the ProbAbilistic Gradient Estimator (PAGE) to solve structured nonsmooth difference-of-convex programs. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Anh Duc Nguyen , Alp Yurtsever , Suvrit Sra , Kim-Chuan Toh

This article is devoted to one particular case of using universal accelerated proximal envelopes to obtain computationally efficient accelerated versions of methods used to solve various optimization problem setups. We propose a proximally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Vladislav Matyukhin

In this technical note, we are concerned with the problem of solving variational inequalities with improved convergence rates. Motivated by Nesterov's accelerated gradient method for convex optimization, we propose a Nesterov's accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Shaolin Tan , Jinhu Lu

This work proposes a novel and unified sparse recovery framework, termed the difference of convex Elastic Net (DCEN). This framework effectively balances strong sparsity promotion with solution stability, and is particularly suitable for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Lang Yu , Nanjing Huang

We are concerned with the convergence of NEAR-DGD$^+$ (Nested Exact Alternating Recursion Distributed Gradient Descent) method introduced to solve the distributed optimization problems. Under the assumption of the strong convexity of local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Woocheol Choi , Doheon Kim , Seok-Bae Yun

We consider stochastic optimization problems with non-convex functional constraints, such as those arising in trajectory generation, sparse approximation, and robust classification. To this end, we put forth a recursive momentum-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Basil M. Idrees , Lavish Arora , Ketan Rajawat

We investigate the integration of Nesterov-type acceleration into primal-dual methods for structured convex optimization. While proximal splitting algorithms efficiently handle composite problems of the form $\min_x f(x)+g(x)+h(Kx)$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Laurent Condat , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Peter Richtárik

This paper considers a class of convex constrained nonsmooth convex stochastic composite optimization problems whose objective function is given by the summation of a differentiable convex component, together with a general nonsmooth but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Ruyu Wang , Chao Zhang

The problem of minimizing a separable convex function under linearly coupled constraints arises from various application domains such as economic systems, distributed control, and network flow. The main challenge for solving this problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Qin Fan , Min Xu , Yiming Ying

In this paper, we design and apply novel inexact adaptive algorithms to deal with minimizing difference-of-convex (DC) functions in Hilbert spaces. We first introduce I-ADCA, an inexact adaptive counterpart of the well-recognized DCA…

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